Past president of Friends of the Institute of Noetic Sciences (FIONS) remembers her friend John Mack, noting that they “grew up across the street from one another on the upper West side of Manhattan,” but did not realize this until “one evening in 1981, when we were both back in our old neighborhoods for a small conference.”

Interview by Sean Casteel

An interview by journalist Sean Casteel with PEER’s media director, Will Bueché, soon after Dr. Mack’s passing, on the Harvard psychiatrist’s career-spanning areas of interest, and how the alien encounter phenomenon was a logical continuation of these interests.

by David Jacobs, Ph.D.

A statement read at the 2004 Ig Nobel Prize Ceremony and Lectures, in recognition of the passing of Dr. John Mack, who had shared with Dr. David Jacobs the 1993 Ig Nobel Psychology Prize “for their leaping conclusion that people who believe they were kidnapped by aliens from outer space, probably were”.